The Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Club of Turkey
Clothes Drive
a full success!
The municipality of Izmir has issued a call for support with their clothes drive for the poor in the region. And the turkish alumnae of MHC were there! Children`s and adult clothes as well as many toys were given to the Sosyal Hizmetler Baskanligi in Izmir (the Social Services division of the municipality) and will be distributed to families in dire circumstances.
'Alumnae in Action' Project
Mount Holyoke Book Award Winners 2007
Looking for Turkey`s english daily news??
Are you an expat in Istanbul or Ankara?? Or are you just visiting?? 
One of the best available resources for expatriates in Istanbul is Mymerhaba. The website carries informative articles on the social and cultural offerings and a regularly updated calendar of events. Listed within are concerts, art showings, movies and just about everything that is going on in town.
L’Express magazine ranked Zeugma as the leading wonder among its “New Seven Wonders of the World” classification ((A.A) January 24.2001). The unparalleled mosaics unearthed from the antique city of Zeugma making the cover of the magazine, is viewed as a vital endeavor in Zeugma's introduction to the rest of the world. The ruins of the ancient city of Zeugma, or modern-day Belkis, were found in the Southeastern Turkish town of Nizip in Gaziantep Province.
THE ANCIENT CITY OF ZEUGMA
Zeugma, on the Euphrates River, was a link between Anatolia and Mesopotamia from earliest times. It was first used to bring timber from the Taurus Mountains to the urban civilizations of Southern Mesopotamia and was also a location where Assyrian traders used to stop on their way back and forth from Central Anatolia. Zeugma fell under the rule of Rome in the second and first centuries B.C. but the Parthian kingdom in the East became a rival for control of the area and the two powers entered into conflict during the first centuries A.D. Zeugma became an important military base, home of one of the legions on the Eastern frontier and was also a trading city on the “Silk Route.” The city lost its importance when the Roman Empire was extended to include Mesopotamia. Zeugma was forgotten when the main crossing over the Euphrates moved to Birecik in the Middle Ages.
Interested in reading more about Zeugma?! Click here
Book Corner:
To read a portrait of Elif Safak, click here.
List of Awards and the annual winners
